Leopoldo Lopez, the 43-year-old Venezuelan opposition leader who is accused of inciting violent anti-government protests in early 2014, is standing firm to his convictions even as he stands behind bars.
According to a statement released on Sunday, Spanish police have arrested four people suspected of carrying out a cyberattack that cost a media website $530, 600 and stopped it from working for three weeks in October 2013. The Spanish news website prnoticias asserts the cyberattacks were organized by a former director of a rival news outlet called Intereconomia.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, a socialist who might be best known outside of Latin American politics for calling Israel a terrorist state and kicking a soccer ball around with Oliver Stone while the two men chewed on coca leaves, thinks that too many of the men serving in his army are out of shape. After taking in their leader's complaints about the fatness of Bolivia's finest, security forces have begun to register all of their overweight members.
The parents of eight of the children killed in Dec. 14, 2012 at the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary have informed Connecticut courts that they might file wrongful death lawsuits in either state or federal court.
According to the Panorama Laboral de América Latina y el Caribe 2014, the urban unemployment rate for the region may in 2015 go to as high as 6.3 percent.
A Mexican pilot lost his job after letting 23-year-old Mexican singer and actress Esmeralda Ugalde and her 19-year-old actress buddy Samadhi Zendejas sit in the cockpit on a flight between Cancun and Mexico City.
Mexico’s finance minister Luis Videgaray has announced on national television that though he is willing to submit to an independent investigation to probe the methods by which he acquired his home, he will neither sell his home or step down from his position.
Brazilian police have captured a man who has confessed to 39 murders. Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha, 26, was arrested on Tuesday after being pulled over in the city of Goiania.
Pope Francis won't meet with the Dalai Lama out of China concerns. In an effort to improve the Vatican’s relations with China, where there are an estimated 12 million practicing Catholics, Pope Francis has declined to meet with the Dalai Lama during his visit to Rome this weekend where the Tibetan exile will attend a summit of past Nobel Peace Prize winners.
The university of Texas withholds the price it paid for Garcia Marquez archive. Last month the University of Texas acquired the archives of the late great Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a set of precious documents and manuscripts that includes original material from books such as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," as well as more than 2,000 pieces of correspondence, including letters from such notables as Carlos Fuentes and Graham Greene.
Amber Rose and Wiz Khalif seem to be happily moving on with their romantic and artistic lives. Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa, everybody’s favorite rapper and model couple, have been in an on-and-off relationship for a while.
Orange Is the New Black, the dark Netflix comedy-drama about a formally privileged woman having to deal with a fifteen month stint in a woman’s prison, has just been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards.
Malala Yousafzai, a joint winner, along with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarth, of the $1.1 million Nobel Peace Prize, has spoken of her sympathy for the Mexican asylum seeker who interrupted the Oslo ceremony in which she was about to receive her medal and diploma by chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjørn Jagland.
Four more states have joined a Texas-led coalition that seeks to sue the Obama administration an over executive action on immigration announced last month wherein the president's unilaterally moved to spare millions of people living illegally in the United States from deportation.
The Britain-based 24 hours multi-media-news operation Sky News is reporting that they have gained access to an illegal prison high in the mountains of Mexico's Sierra Madre where hitmen for Mexico's drug cartels have been jailed by vigilantes who have simply plucked them off from the streets.
Brazil's National Truth Commission has delivered a report on the killings, disappearances and acts of torture that were committed by its government during the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship
In an interview with Telemundo, President Barack Obama expressed the help his administration offered Mexico in trying to figure out what happen to the 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College who went missing in September, a tragedy that he said had "no place in civilized society."
Rockstar Games posts nine Grand Theft Auto fan videos to its site. Grand Theft Auto gets as much flack as it does accolades for its addictive and highly stylized interactive flights into the criminal world and its erotically charged adrenaline fantasies.
On Monday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that directs President Barack Obama to levy sanctions against Venezuelan government officials who are found to have violated the rights of anti-government protesters.
In a Tuesday United Nations conference in Peru, organizers will shoot hard for the first time ever to neutralize all the greenhouse gas pollution generated by their own event.
Protesting against new Mexican fees and rules placed upon the imports of used cars from the United States, Mexican demonstrators stalled and blocked traffic near at least four heavily crossed entry points along the United States' southern border.
